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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385480338Author Anne FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602625Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646698Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062355911Author Eleanor RooseveltFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746324Author Jung ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

First published in 1959, The Autobiography of James Monroe collects the compelling fragments of Monroe's unfinished autobiography, written after his retirement from the presidency. The memoirs trace his boyhood, education, and experiences during his long...

" WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. ""Riveting. Provides a history that helps us to understand the choices made by so many black men and women of Hamer's generation, who...

This volume provides an account of one family's experiences in post Communist China. The author documents his own coming of age and eventual departure from a country that failed to live up to the hard fought ideals of his father.Book InformationISBN...

This title was first published in 1971: Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.Book InformationISBN 9781138045835Author E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872802Author Nick BunkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

The letters of Eleanor Roosevelt reveal a cagy, self-confident woman who was never afraid to speak her mind on politics, religion, civil rights, and sitting presidents.Book InformationISBN 9780813191331Author Eleanor RooseveltFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916968267Author William R. BusterFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Kentucky Historical Society,USPublisher Kentucky Historical Society,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801100Author John Kennedy OhlFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children's House. This memoir starts with a Prologue drawn from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954622159Author Katherine JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University Press

A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthandIn the early years of California’s statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834–1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848–1910) had front-row...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940423166Author Andrew CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Four Winds PressPublisher Four Winds PressWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760062Author Huiyuan LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501195716Author Anita AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Salo W. Baron (1895-1989) was the most important and influential Jewish historian of the twentieth century. This volume is based on an international conference organized by the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544230Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362745Author Helen RappaportFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438489346Author Randall S. BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

" ""Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788944595Author Swami VivekanandaFormat HardbackPage Count 830Imprint Discovery PublisherPublisher Discovery PublisherWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145404Author Ray E BoomhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882326136Author Terry Fred HorowitzFormat PaperbackImprint Library of the HolocaustPublisher Library of the HolocaustWeight(grams) 277g

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From...

Shortlisted, Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Non-Fiction)What does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany...

Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s...

First published in 1961 The Unmentionable Nechaev presents a full account of Sergei Nechaev's extraordinary life. The name of Nechaev is little known today in the western world. Michael Prawdin expounds his teachings and shows the strain of Nechaevism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879264Author Andrew RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint VikingPublisher VikingWeight(grams) 152g

Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft. In May of 1896, a young magician from New York City...

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such,...

The French were the archenemies of the British and her American colonies, particularly after the French and Indian War which was begun by George Washington. So, why did America look to the French as their principal ally in the American Revolution and why...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781991016188Author Paul DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Massey University...

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of EleuthEre IrEnEe du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066728Author Thomas C BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade Publishing

Over the years American -- especially New York -- audiences have evolved a consistent set of expectations for the "Irish play." Traditionally the term implied a specific subject matter, invariably rural and Catholic, and embodied a reductive...